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...received a memo from Perry requesting a position on one of the President's councils on drugs. Batton said Clinton was unaware of the request but offered to try to track it down. According to Batton, he asked Ferguson to get in touch with Perry to find out the content of Perry's memo and to get back in touch with Clinton. Batton said no further discussions took place. As the week went on, the troopers' stories, which were unsupported by notes or documents, proved almost impossible to verify. Every one of Clinton's alleged mistresses who could be identified...
...students’ self-censorship is the direct censorship of the Harvard administration itself. Administrators have gone to great lengths to regulate political activity on campus and have shown their readiness to undercut students’ free speech rights when they aren’t big fans of the content of that speech...
...case in point is the anti-war movement at Harvard. Last spring, administrators made an abortive effort to prohibit students from gathering to protest recruitment. And they have even tried to regulate the content of political speech, with an associate dean recently telling organizers of today’s rally to “keep your gathering restricted...
...seven past, they sometimes add in another few minutes to allow for the really late stragglers; some classes won’t start until ten or even fifteen past. Not only is this unfair to on-time students who have to wait, but it also reduces the amount of content that can be covered in any given course. The seven-minute rule, further, can be very unclear. A very hazy line separates when it should and should not apply. After all, the rule is in place mainly so that people who have back-to-back classes have time...
...about final clubs; it’s hard to imagine proponents of those organizations making use of it, and those who would fight them already assumed they possessed whatever bad qualities can be inferred from these e-mails. In fact, most of the qualities that seem to make the content interesting (cattiness, the impact of wealth, and so on) are qualities that would probably be revealed if the election dialogue from any major organization on campus—final club, Crimson, Undergraduate Council (UC), or what have you—was made publicly available...